Friendly Quote by Charles Baxter

“Ethics is a dream.”

— Charles Baxter

It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with…

— Charles Baxter

At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved,…

— Charles Baxter

Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

— Charles Baxter

“...Hell is the proof of God's failure or refusal to love.”

— Charles Baxter

“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.”

— Charles Baxter

“Gurov, discovers that the most important features of life that you want to talk about cannot be spoken of in polite society.”

— Charles Baxter

“Men have strength, Miss Ferenczi said, but no true magic. That is why men fall in love with women but women do not fall…

— Charles Baxter

There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.

— Charles Baxter

“Anyway, what I've just told you was what prompted the chair incident. I had grown big, and he was trying to belittle me.”

— Charles Baxter

“intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.”

— Charles Baxter

When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world.…

— Charles Baxter